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Dutch former Colonies, Asia, Dutch East Indies - This Day in History: Mar 20, 1602: Dutch East India Company founded http://dingeengoete.blogspot.com/

Map of the Dutch colonial possessions in 1840 – including Dutch East Indies, Curaçao and Dependencies, Suriname and Dutch Gold Coast

Batavia This Day in History: Mar 20, 1602: Dutch East India Company founded http://dingeengoete.blogspot.com/

Batavia This Day in History: Mar 20, 1602: Dutch East India Company founded http://dingeengoete.blogspot.com/

Batavia (today’s Jakarta on the island of Java, Indonesia) was the headquarters of the Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindie Compagnie in Dutch, or VOC). Founded in 1619 by Jan Pieterszoon Coen, the company’s governor general of the Moluccas, the city featured magnificent homes of wealthy Dutch merchants as well as pestilential canals, which were the scourge of many visiting sailors whose ships stopped for supplies and repairs on their way home to Europe.

The VOC World - Map by Susan Reese. This Day in History: Mar 20, 1602: Dutch East India Company founded http://dingeengoete.blogspot.com/

Dutch Batavia in 1681, built in what is now North Jakarta. This Day in History: Mar 20, 1602: Dutch East India Company founded http://dingeengoete.blogspot.com/

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Two sides of a duit, a coin minted in 1735 by the VOC. This Day in History: Mar 20, 1602: Dutch East India Company founded http://dingeengoete.blogspot.com/

Map of Surabaya, Indonesia, from Guide to the Dutch East Indies by Dr. J.F. van Bemmelen and G.B. Hoover, Luzac & Co, London 1897. Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin.

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Spice Islands Historic Maps (Moluccas): 250 Years of Maps (1521–1760)

Surabaya, 1937

Defences around Batavia in the 1660s

VOC "spice trade" Route

Old Map Of Saparua, Maluku, Indonesia

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March 20, 1602: The Dutch East India Company is founded. The Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oost-indische Compagnie) was founded through the sponsorship of the Dutch government, who granted it a monopoly over trade in the East Indies through a charter that was set to expire after twenty-one years. The company could, through this charter, build forts and conduct military and diplomatic activities in the area, which would help to protect and direct Dutch trade in the East Indies